SS Camoens damaged by drift ice on
Hunafloi Bay, outside the emigration port Boršeyri, in the summer of 1883.
Sometimes the Polar drift ice delayed or even damaged the Emigration
ships, so the people had to wait for weeks or even months in uncertainty.
Boršeyri village in about 1900
Boršeyri was a major emigration port on
the North coast of Iceland.
